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List of Morphoses productions

Morphoses is a ballet company, co-founded in 2007 by Christopher Wheeldon and Lourdes Lopez. Morphoses is a guest resident company at the New York City Center and at Sadler's Wells Theatre in London. It was known as Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company until February 2010, when Wheeldon announced that he was leaving the company.

Productions

City Center, October 1–5, 2008

program one, October 1–3

Polyphonia
  • Christopher Wheeldon’s choreography
  • Ligeti's eponymous music
  • costumes by Holly Hynes
  • lighting by Mark Stanley
Monotones II
Commedia
Six Fold Illuminate
  • Drew Jacoby
  • Céline Cassone
  • Edwaard Liang
  • Edward Watson
  • Rubinald Pronk
  • Rory Hohenstein

program two, October 4–5

Commedia
  • Christopher Wheeldon’s choreography
  • Stravinsky’s Pulcinella Suite
  • costumes by Isabel Toledo
  • sets by Ruben Toledo
  • lighting by Penny Jacobus
  • Leanne Benjamin
  • Beatriz Stix-Brunell
  • Céline Cassone
  • Drew Jacoby
  • Rory Hohenstein
  • Edwaard Liang
  • Rubinald Pronk
  • Edward Watson
One
  • Drew Jacoby
  • Rubinald Pronk
Monotones II
  • Frederick Ashton’s choreography
  • Satie's Trois Gymnopédie
  • costumes and lighting by Ashton

Wendy Whelan

Shutters Shut
  • Christine Thomassen
  • Andreas Heise
Fools’ Paradise
  • Wendy Whelan
  • Maria Kowroski
  • Teresa Reichlen
  • Tiler Peck
  • Céline Cassone
  • Craig Hall
  • Edwaard Liang
  • Adrian Danchig-Waring
  • Gonzalo Garcia

Guggenheim Museum, March 8–9, 2009

Commedia

  • Christopher Wheeldon’s choreography
  • Stravinsky's music

Fall for Dance, September–October 2009

Softly as I Leave You

  • Drew Jacoby
  • Rubinald Pronk

City Center, October 29, – November 1, 2009

program one, Thursday and Saturday, October 29 and 31

  • accompanied by the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas
Commedia
  • Christopher Wheeldon’s choreography
  • Stravinsky's music
Softly as I Leave You
  • Lightfoot León's choreography
  • Pärt and Bach's music
  • Drew Jacoby
  • Rubinald Pronk
Bolero
new Harbour ballet

program two, Friday and Sunday, October 30 and November 1

  • all piano program
Continuum
  • Christopher Wheeldon’s choreography
  • Ligeti's music
Softly as I Leave You
  • Lightfoot León’s choreography
  • Pärt and Bach's music
new Wheeldon ballet
  • Christopher Wheeldon’s choreography
  • Rachmaninoff's music

notes

Dancers

2008 New York City Center

  • Beatriz Stix-Brunell
  • Céline Cassone
  • Christine Thomassen
  • Drew Jacoby
  • Leanne Benjamin
  • Maria Kowroski
  • Teresa Reichlen
  • Tiler Peck
  • Wendy Whelan
  • Adrian Danchig-Waring
  • Andreas Heise
  • Craig Hall
  • Edwaard Liang
  • Edward Watson
  • Gonzalo Garcia
  • Jason Fowler
  • Rory Hohenstein
  • Rubinald Pronk
  • Tyler Angle

notes

2009 Fall for Dance

  • Drew Jacoby
  • Rubinald Pronk

2009 New York City Center

Reviews

  • Village Voice by Deborah Jowitt, November 10, 2009
  • Sulcas, Roslyn, 2009, "New Troupe Faces a Hard Reality," International Herald Tribune, October 24–25, pp. 15 & 19.

Footnotes

References

  • Playbill, City Center, October 1 and 4, 2008

External links